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September 2020
Report

Wikiversity: Summer University

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Wikiversity and Wikipedia editing as integral part of a university course by the University of Vienna
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie
  • what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation, information material, technical platform and hosting
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 2
  • newly registered The number of participants that create new accounts on a Wikimedia project. These include users who register up to two weeks before the start of the event.: 2
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (2 women)
More information
→ project page at de.wikiversity (German)

WMAT summer strategy meeting

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: every year in summer, the WMAT board and some of the staff go on a strategy offsite in order to check how the year has been progressing and to prepare the annual plan and budget for the next year; this year we held a two-day-online meeting due to the Austrian Covid-19 development
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time and technical platform
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 10
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 4 (2 women, 1 male foreigner, 1 female foreigner)
More information
→ The results of our planning are discussed with our community in the context of planning labs

New Wikimania scholarship program

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: upgrading our annual Wikimania scholarships to a permanent support program, matching WMAT's and WMDE's scholarship guidelines and processes
  • what we contributed to this activity: development together with WMDE
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 5
More information
→ Wikimania scholarship program (German version)
→ Wikimania scholarship program (English version)

Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb (Summer 2020)

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: recurring German-language Wikipedia writing contest for removing cleanup templates
  • volunteer organizers: HvW
  • what we contributed to this activity: awards
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 35
  • quality High quality – the number of community decorations for media files (featured, quality, valued) and articles (quality, featured) – and improved quality – the number of improved main namespace pages tagged as having quality issues.: 2,825 (2,825 improved German-language Wikipedia articles)
  • content pages A content page is an article on Wikipedia, an item on Wikidata, a content page on Wikisource, an entry on Wiktionary, and a media file on Commons, etc. This metric captures the total number of content pages created or improved across all Wikimedia projects.: 2,825
More information
→ project page on de.wikipedia (German)

Newcomers & diversity expert group meeting 2020-09

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular online meeting on how to reach, hold and welcome Wikipedia/Commons newcomers and to broaden the Austrian community's diversity
  • volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 4
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 3 (1 woman, 2 foreign women)
More information
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Organisational development expert group meeting 2020-09-09

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; discussing a new text for WMAT's rules of internal procedure about the coordination of longer absences of board members (e.g. parental leave)
  • volunteer organizers: UlliZ
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 5
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (1 women, 1 foreigner)
More information
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)
→ WMAT's rules of internal procedure (in German)

Partners, projects, international finances expert group meeting 2020-09-10

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; discussing input for the Wikimedia 2030 transition events
  • volunteer organizers: Philip Kopetzky
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
Program
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 6
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (2 foreigners)
More information
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Supported media files and pages using media files

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-09-01 to 2020-09-30
  • volunteer organizers: Isiwal, Uoaei1, Tsui, Tigerente; Krd, Svema, Pistenwolf, MarkusFelix and 2eight for Festivalsommer
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipment from our tech pool, accreditations for events, travel grants, post-processing software, skill transfer activities and/or support related to other activities
Program
Free Content
Metrics
  • new files The number of new media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.: 5,850
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 1,733
  • quality High quality – the number of community decorations for media files (featured, quality, valued) and articles (quality, featured) – and improved quality – the number of improved main namespace pages tagged as having quality issues.: 293 ( quality: 293)
  • useful content Number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 1,498
  • versatile content Number of total usages of new media files files in main namespace.: 3,263

– last checked: 2020-02-12

More information
→ Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons
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